Yep, still wondering here. I seem to recall last year's flyover being mentioned in JRS prior to the event. I did hear back from one of our more wise eplayans, but so far he hasn't heard anything yet either. Apparently the people who make this happen have a tendency to use a bird that flies over just before noon on Thursday or Friday. Thursday last year I believe. I'll post here if/when I hear anything.. and thanks for doing the same..

burner von braun wrote:Yep, still wondering here. I seem to recall last year's flyover being mentioned in JRS prior to the event. I did hear back from one of our more wise eplayans, but so far he hasn't heard anything yet either. Apparently the people who make this happen have a tendency to use a bird that flies over just before noon on Thursday or Friday. Thursday last year I believe. I'll post here if/when I hear anything.. and thanks for doing the same..

I haven't heard anything about them this year..... My indirect contact with the Satellite company has moved to another job, so I won't be getting them (if they happened) through that channel this year. Will make creating my moop map overlays a lot harder to do without... Anyone get a good overhead aerial photo at least?

I'd had a conversation at someone with Digital Globe (the name of the entity that had been previously known as geoeye), they told me a few days before the event that they were planning a pass, but did not yet have the schedule locked down and wouldn't until the start of the event. It sounded like they were trying to schedule the best gear they could, but it was up in the air due to some other customer job (makes sense, paid gigs get priority). It's possible that other jobs made it impossible to schedule, or that weather conditions didn't allow for great imagery - I've send them a note, and will pass along what I hear back.

follow the Getty images link and work through the various use scenarios. It is available at prices that range from 300 to 450 dollars on what would be as close to personal use as I can come up with. note that personal use is not an option.

Tonight on Jeopardy the answer was "What is Burning Man" the category was "Seen From Space". The image was BRC from the satellite. This is either very cool or spells the absolute doom of life as we knew it on the Playa.

Sorry guys, no free satellite imagery this year. The guys who ran the GeoEye satellites who had been doing flybys for the last several years are now part of a company called Digital Globe, and while they did have a satellite pass they unfortunately are not making the images available to the public. Digital Globe's images are available through a convoluted licensing process, and cost a vast fortune (they scale based on resolution and type of application).

I'm merging this with the existing thread on satellite imagery from the 2013 event (though I'm not sure if it's in Google Maps yet), in the Experiences At Burning Man forum (which is a better fit for photos, videos, and stories from the playa).

I think Google's data updated a little while back. Digital Globe's information is still not only not free, but not cheap either. However, there are a couple satellite imagery smartphone apps out there that will let you search for and purchase specific images (at $15-$20 apiece) for personal use. We don't want to plug them here, so no links in the thread please. I would, however, encourage you to send messages to @DigitalGlobe on twitter, encouraging them to make the Burning Man 2013 satellite imagery available free for personal use.

You can find it on Google Earth on a desktop computer, not sure about mobile or tablet, if you click the "historical imagery" icon (looks like a clock with an arrow), then click backwards or forwards to toggle through the images to one from August 2013.

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